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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Genus DENDROCITTA, Gould. 
374. DENDROCITTA EUFA. 
THE INDIAN TREE-MAGPIE. 
Lanius rufus, Scop. Del Faun, et Flor. Insuh. ii. p. 86. Corvus rufus, Lath. 
Ind. Orn. i. p. 161. Coracias vagabunda, Lath. Ind. Orn. \. p, 171. Den- 
drocitta pallida, Bl. J. A. S. B. xv. p. 30 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 315. Den- 
drocitta rufa, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 314 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 42] ; Bl. B. 
Burm. p. 88 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. iii. p. 76 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped. 
p. 591 ; Hume, 8. F. yiii. p. 106. 
Description. — Male and female. The whole head and neck with the breast 
sooty brown ; remainder of the body-plumage bright fulvous^ darker on 
the back and scapulars ; wing-coverts greyish white ; wings dark brown, 
the outer webs of the tertiaries and later secondaries grey ; tail ashy grey, 
broadly tipped with black. 
The young are duller in colour than the adults, the head is lighter brown, 
and the tail-feathers are tipped with light buff. 
Iris reddish brown ; bill slaty horn-colour, albescent at the base ; mouth 
flesh-colour ; eyelids plumbeous ; legs dark brown ; claws horn-colour. 
Length 16'8 inches, tail 10, wing 6*1, tarsus 1*3, bill from gape 1*3. 
The female is smaller. 
I have united D. pallida to D. rufa as it does not seem possible to 
maintain the former species. This Magpie varies much in intensity of 
colouring, and even in such a humid country as Burmah some specimens 
are very pale. 
Specimens from the Himalayas and from Southern India have a sub- 
terminal pale band in front of the black tip of the central tail-feathers, 
and in many birds the other tail-feathers are tipped more or less with 
fulvous. 
The Indian Tree-Magpie is found over every portion of British Burmah 
except in Southern Tenasserim, where it does not appear to occur south of 
Mergui. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay does not record it from Karennee. 
A single specimen was procured near Bhamo by Dr. Anderson, where it 
appears to be rare ; for Mr. Swarries, the taxidermist of the Phayre Museum 
in Rangoon, who collected birds at Bhamo, did not bring it among his collec- 
tions. Colonel Godwin- Austen procured it in the Khasia hills, and Dr. 
Jerdon says it occurs in Assam. 
It is found over the whole continent of India as far as Cashmeer and 
Scinde on the north-west, and it ranges down the peninsula as far as the 
